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Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

Founder Patrick Wendell joins host Kevin Ball to talk about managing AI coding costs at Databricks. Companies raced to get employees using AI and then watched the bills explode, so Databricks built ways to keep the productivity gains without the spend spiraling out of control. Patrick Wendell is a co-founder of Databricks, where he leads engineering teams…

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  1. How Many Jobs Has Patrick Wendell Had? at 2:15

    Patrick Wendell has had one job in his career. Full answer

  2. Do Cheaper Models Match Frontier Models on Routine Coding? at 14:31

    Patrick Wendell says much lower-cost models, even the last generation, perform identically to a very expensive frontier model on routine coding tasks like a… Full answer

  3. Why Do Teams Stay on the Expensive AI Model? at 19:49

    Patrick Wendell says people are bad at judging which AI model is good enough for a task. Full answer

  4. Why Does Databricks Sandbox Its Coding Agents? at 46:32

    Patrick Wendell sandboxes coding agents at Databricks so a model that takes an unsafe shortcut cannot easily call the open internet from a development… Full answer

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